[Mageia-dev] RM replacement

[nicolas vigier]

On Fri, 05 Aug 2011, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> 'Twas brillig, and Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz at 04/08/11 21:26 did gyre
> and gimble:
> > Helo,
> > 
> > As my experience in security field, to make Mageia more available in enterprise 
> > environments, and specially those that are security paranoid, i'm planning to 
> > port SRM.  SRM is a package that does a "secure" file deleting according some 
> > security standards (i dont remember right now names, i guess it is something 
> > in NIST, but that doesnt matter really).
> > 
> > My question is, what should be the procedure that when you install srm, then 
> > the normal rm command could be replaced?  i was thinking in pushing an alias 
> > but what other alternatives do i have?
> 
> Well you could theoretically use alternatives, but I would suspect that
> such a fundamental tool as rm would probably be very dangerous to
> package in that way (the alternatives scripts themselves may use rm!)
> 
> So I think an alias would be best, but it'll only cover users/scripts
> calling rm and not general unlinking... It likely won't cover GUIs and
> other deletion methods. With that in mind, is it work aliasing rm at all
> seeing as it'll only catch a subset of "delete" operations? You wouldn't
> want to give a false sense of security after all...

Yes, this would be better done on filesystem/kernel. Like this :
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/26548